This Thai island is a tranquil paradise - when not hosting full moon parties

Haad Rin Nok on Koh Phangan plays host to the island’s full moon parties. In between the monthly debauchery, the Thai island offers vaccinated travellers a quiet corner of paradise.The tide is in, the sea lapping gently against the guest house walls of Haad Rin Nai, also known as Sunset Beach, at the southern tip of Thailand’s Phangan island.

“I’ve let workers from Myanmar stay in my place, they lost their jobs and there’s a war in their country,” explains Son, as we pass some of his residents, halos of yellow thanaka pasted on their cheeks. “What can I do? I’m a Buddhist. Most partygoers are of the 20-something backpacker variety; they look a bit lost, uneasy on hired scooters. There are hardcore party fiends, too, ravers with wild hair who live for these hedonistic happenings. A few hippie folk from the island’s east coast arrive in tie-dye, for a dance.

Nearly half of the island falls inside the Than Sadet National Park. Although some resorts infringe on what should be protected, the hilly topography serves to preserve the rainforest from large-scale development. At one of the most beautiful, Mae Haad Beach, a sandbar leads to a rocky outcrop that acts as a launch pad from which snorkellers explore the corals that still thrive off the northwest coast.

Flipflop is a single-storey beachside shack bar with interior walls plastered in flip-flops. Drinks are listed as “Flip Flop Prescriptions”, as alcohol is “medicine”, owner Bert Budel explains.

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